IDF second-in-command calls Gaza disengagement mistake Jerusalem Post Former IDF deputy chief of staff Dan Harel told Channel 2 in an interview on Saturday that the manner in which Israel undertook the disengagement from Gaza was a mistake. Harel justified Israel’s territorial withdrawal from the Strip during the interview saying, "I’m not surprised that […]

06/11/2010 – 04:52 PM Several ill detainees in the female population of the Israeli Talmond prison have been denied medical treatment, a Palestinian rights groups reported. RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Several ill detainees in the female population of the Israeli Talmond prison have been denied medical treatment, a Palestinian rights group reported, adding that the prison […]

[ 06/11/2010 – 04:18 PM ] Arab MK Mohammed Baraka offers evidence that NIS 40 million of the NIS 130 million budget set aside to develop the city of Lod will be used to demolish Arab homes allegedly built without permits. OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Arab MK Mohammed Baraka, speaking Saturday before the Israeli Knesset, […]

[ 06/11/2010 – 03:08 PM ] Israeli Knesset (parliament) member (Kadima) Yisrael Hasson has said that Israel should pay the price for the release of captured soldier Gilad Shalit if it was unable to determine his location. OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Israeli Knesset (parliament) member (Kadima) Yisrael Hasson has said that Israel should pay the price […]

06/11/2010 – 01:58 PM OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Dozens of Jerusalemite families of prisoners, ex-detainees and martyrs on Friday rallied outside the house of Salam Fayyad, head of Fatah’s government in Ramallah city, in protest at excluding them from the pilgrimage (Hajj) mission to Makkah this year as part of the generous gesture made by […]

NAZARETH, (PIC)– The Israeli government is determined to settle existing differences with UNESCO (the UN organization for Education, Science and Culture) in light of the organization’s recent decisions to counter the prior’s practice of adding Islamic holy sites in Palestine to the country’s Jewish heritage list, Israeli media said. According to Israeli Radio, a […]

JERICHO, (PIC)– Inhabitants of Jaftelk village, Jericho district, in the Jordan Valley organized a protest sit-in on Saturday with the participation of foreign solidarity activists against Israeli settlement activity. The rally was held following the recent Israeli confiscation of 25 dunums of the Jaftelk land, which would isolate 32 families, 120 individuals, from their land […]

GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Islamic Jihad’s Secretary-General Ramadan Shallah on Friday urged Hamas and Fatah to work quickly to end their rivalry. Shallah was speaking a ceremony in the Syrian capital to mark the 23rd anniversary of the founding of the Islamic Jihad movement. Hamas and Fatah should agree on a national program […]

[ 06/11/2010 – 03:39 PM ] WEST BANK, (PIC)– PA security forces arrested this month 163 Palestinians throughout the West Bank, among them 74 ex-detainees who were released from Israeli jails, and transferred 40 detainees for military trials over their political affiliation, the Hamas movement in Gaza reported Saturday. The official report added that […]

[ 06/11/2010 – 02:30 PM ] BERLIN, (PIC)– German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle is to visit the Gaza Strip on Monday on an official visit, the first by a German official to the Strip since 2006. The German foreign ministry said in a statement on Saturday that Westerwelle plans to take first hand information […]

[ 06/11/2010 – 02:33 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Haaretz newspaper revealed that Zionist right-wing societies are secretly helped by the Israeli government to take over Palestinian real estate in different parts of the occupied city of Jerusalem. The newspaper said that the Israeli government’s administration of lands is transferring Palestinian properties in Silwan […]

[ 06/11/2010 – 02:01 PM ] VIENNA, (PIC)– Friends of humanity international organization appealed to the Egyptian authorities to allow Road to Hope convoy to move from the Egyptian-Libyan borders into the Gaza Strip to deliver medical and human assistance to the impoverished Palestinian people there. The organization said that about 100 international peace […]